Category: geopolitics

The No Illusions Podcast #43 – Operation Ajax Dec 2011

Why do the Iranian people distrust the United States? Because they “hate our freedoms”, as Bush said about Al Qaida? Or do they have genuine reasons? How many…

CO2 Emissions Per Capita Dec 2011

Via Google Public Data Explorer

U.S. Senate Backs Indefinite Detention of American Citizens Dec 2011

Just in case you were wondering what happened with that bill before the U.S. Senate that I mentioned in last week’s show? Well… it passed. Via the World…

Taking Video Of Police Illegal In 12 U.S. States Dec 2011

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DbxSZ_FB8&w=420&h=315] Here’s what Trotsky said about the rise of Fascism.  At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their…

No Illusions Podcast #41 Nov 2011

News updates from around the globe. Includes the following stories: Former Tasmanian MP found guilty of having sex with a 12 year old girl, but gets no jail…

Time Magazine WTF? Nov 2011

Revolution? In the U.S.A.? It’s not happening.  It’s not happening.  It’s not happening.  It’s not happening.  It’s not happening.      

No Illusions Podcast #40 – Doug La Follette, Wisconsin Secretary of State Nov 2011

Doug La Follette (born June 6, 1940) is an American academic, environmental activist, and politician from the state of Wisconsin. A Democrat, he is the current Secretary of…

Truth Goggles Nov 2011

According to Neiman Journalism Lab: “Dan Schultz, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab (and newly named Knight-Mozilla fellow for 2012), is devoting his thesis to automatic…

Occupy Wall Street’s big win in one graph Nov 2011

  “… the use of the term ‘income inequality,’ from less than 91 instances in the week before the occupation started to almost 500 instances last week.”   … writes Dylan…

No Illusions #36 – Governments Don’t Rule The World Sep 2011

On this episode – A trader tell us that Goldman Sachs rules the world, en economist tells us what’s wrong with capitalism, Elizabeth Warren explains why the rich…